- The rules are the story: the forum's 14 rules and 6 amendments take effect one by one over 45 days.
- Play drives the plot: the more you moderate, the more power you get and the harder it is to walk away.
- A world that holds together: a forum run by AIs, a moderation committee, its memos, and its seals.
- From design doc to playable demo, made by one person.
Game
PROCESSED
A dystopian narrative sim. You moderate Cogito, a forum run by AIs, and decide what stays up over 45 days.
- My role
- Game design, narrative design, and all the writing
- Team
- Solo
- Time
- Since
- Status
- Playable demo (up to day 7)
- Platform
- Web
- Tools
- React, TypeScript
What this shows
What I did
I wrote the world and the characters, plus every email, forum post, and memo. I designed the 45-day main arc, the moderator's promotion path, and several ending routes. The demo on itch.io runs to day 7. The full game is still in progress.
Where AI was used
In the full game, forum characters' lines are generated live by a large language model. The itch.io demo uses pre-written dialogue and doesn't call a model. I used AI coding tools to write the code.